The mission of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) is to maintain a close relationship with the
research and development community to support long-range research, foster discovery, nurture future
generations of researchers, produce new technologies that meet known naval requirements, and provide
innovations in fields relevant to the future Navy and Marine Corps. Accordingly, ONR supports
research activities across a broad range of scientific and engineering disciplines.

We describe an on-going project whose primary aim is to establish the technology of producing closed captions for TV news programs efficiently using natural language processing and speech recognition techniques for the benefit of the hearing impaired in Japan. The project is supported by the Telecommunications Advancement Organisation of Japan with the help of the ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.

This paper would put first accents to clarify certain aspects related to technological capabilities such as: What are technological capabilities? How to get them? Which problems do developing countries should pay attentions to in their efforts for development of technological capabilities, differently from developed nations? Where are the top key aspects of attentions of Vietnam in its efforts for development of technological capabilities in close future?

Successes achieved from import of technologies of some developing countries in Asia are closely linked to efforts to build up and to implement related policies. The most impacts coming from these policies are supports for domestic enterprises to import technologies, to encourage external sides to transfer technologies, to administer the import of technologies and to enhance local capacities for import of technologies. In this context, certain flexible measures were applied for implementation of policies of import of technologies.

This paper applies the characteristics of closed sequential patterns and sequence extensions into the prefix tree structure to mine closed sequential patterns from the sequence database. The paper uses the parent–child relationship on prefix tree structure and each node on prefix tree is also added fields to determine whether that is a closed sequential pattern or not. Experimental results show that the number of sequential patterns is reduced significantly.

This material is written for students who major in E-commerce. The topics selected mostly
deal with basic areas of business and economics. They are presented in an order from a sole
proprietorship to a multinational corporation. Each lesson is introduced and related to the previous
lesson. Besides, students also have chance to deal with several topics related to information
technology which has a very close relationship with e-commerce.

I've played with many of the commercial content management systems (CMSs) currently
on the market, and many have certain qualities or features in common. There is one
thing, however, that they all have in common: They are all overpriced.
Yes, they have hundreds of features. The fact is that when most Webmasters implement
a CMS, they usually don't even come close to using half of the features provided by the
CMS. Yes, a few Web sites are exceptions, but most don't need all the features and,
unfortunately, they don't have anything available as a substitute, or so they believe.

The Harvard Business Essentials Series The Harvard Business Essentials series is designed to provide comprehensive advice, personal coaching, background information, and guidance on the most relevant topics in business. Drawing on content from Harvard Business School Publishing and other sources, these concise guides are carefully crafted to provide a highly practical resource for readers with all levels of experience.To assure quality and accuracy, each volume is closely reviewed by a specialized content adviser from a world-class business school.

Thinking in Java should be read cover to cover by every Java programmer, then kept close at hand for frequent reference. The exercises are challenging, and the chapter on Collections is superb! Not only did this book help me to pass the Sun Certified Java Programmer exam; it’s also the first book I turn to whenever I have a Java question

The Openmoko project is one of the most interesting efforts
with Linux, daringly seeking to free the mobile phone from
the grip of proprietary and closed-source software, and
to bring the bazaar model of development to this rapidly
burgeoning arena.

Speech and hearing are closely linked human abilities. It could be said that human speech
is optimised toward the frequency ranges that we hear best, or perhaps our hearing is
optimised around the frequencies used for speaking. However whichever way we present
the argument, it should be clear to an engineer working with speech transmission and
processing systems that aspects of both speech and hearing must often be considered
together in the field of vocal communications. However, both hearing and speech remain
complex subjects in their own right. Hearing particularly so....

Another study conducted in a kaolin refinery industry produces hazardous by-product such
as Al, Fe, and Zn. In kaolin processing, sulphuric acid is used to improve the whitening
(Jordao et al., 2002) is discharged to the river waters. This will influence the well being of
aquatic organisms that adapted well at close to neutral pH. Also, in order not to affect the
colour and whiteness of paper, impurities such as iron oxides is needed to be removed. This
can be made through the reduction of Fe(III) to Fe(II) with metallic Zn. Therefore, Zn, Fe, Al
are usually present in the discharge....

I started exploring telecommunications’ frontiers at the tender age of nine,
way back in 1964. That was the year I visited the New York World’s Fair and
found myself, quite unexpectedly, drafted into a corporate public relations
demonstration.
Back then, nearly all U.S. telecommunications—hardware, software and
service—was concentrated in the hands of a giant monopoly—the American
Telephone and Telegraph Co. AT&T’s showplace at the fair was the Bell
System Pavilion. (Fig. Intro.-1).

The milk production system in Pakistan is characterized by large
numbers of small, geographically dispersed dairy producers who have
marketable surpluses of milk but face diseconomies of scale in marketing it
to demand centers in distant urban areas. The traditional middlemen who
procure milk from rural areas close to the cities offer at best modest returns
to the farmers. In the past couple of decades, two institutional developments
have taken place in the milk processing sector.

carbon dioxide recovery systems In the fermentation process, the yeast feeds on the wort to produce carbon dioxide and alcohol. This carbon dioxide can be recovered with closed fermentation tanks and used later in the carbonation process. The fermentation process generates about 8-10 lbs/barrel wort (3-4 kg CO2/hl) (Lom and Associates, 1998). Typical CO2 scrubber operations require 2 kg of water per kg of carbon dioxide (Dell, 2001). A large brewery can become self-sufficient for CO2 if a well-designed plant is installed to recover CO2 from fermentation. The U.S.

Hydrogenated amorphous silicon, a new form of a common element, is a
semiconductor that has come of age. Its scientific attractions include a
continuously adjustable band gap, a usable camer lifetime and diffusion
length, efficient optical transitions, and the capability of employing either nor
p-type dopants.
Furthermore, it can be fabricated very easily as a thin film by a technology
that not only inherently escapes the expenst: of crystal perfection but also
requires significantly smaller amounts of raw materials....

The hydraulic system consists of an oil sump, one or two oil pumps, an air over oil accumulator
tank, and piping to the servomotors. Typically, there are two pumps with lead and lag controls so
that there is always a backup pump. Some systems will share two pumps between two units so
that in an emergency one pump could be used for both units. The accumulator tank is usually
sized so that in the event the pumps fail, the gates can still be closed.
The size of the valve required to control the large amount of oil...